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Esoteric languages by-nature have smaller populations of devs. They demand higher salaries for their specialist work. This can hurt you as you scale - salaries continue to increase (secularly), and the pool of possible engineers begins to shrink within your locale.
This is first degree satire. Your third degree satire is actually satire in the second degree.
I love when HN netizens just throw stuff like this out without further explanation. It's as if they're monks reciting the dogma. Sigh.
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LOL I'd be curious to know which country you think this is possible in. The contemporary democratic nation state is a facade over a distributed and decentralized oligarchy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy#:~:text=....
Tell this to my mom.
I often wonder if I would regret studying semiotics if I never learned to code (granted, I was writing code before college).
I do think studying semiotics is part of what got me interested in doing something meaningful with my life.
Anyone else here have an unconventional degree while also being a relative success story?